The Egyptian government has notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it has imposed a provisional safeguard duty on steel billet and rebar imports for a period of 180 days starting from April 15. Egypt will collect up to 15 percent duty on billet imports and 25 percent duty on rebar imports.
According to the notification made to the WTO, imports from developing countries shall not be subject to the proposed provisional safeguard measure as... Read More

It has officially been announced that the 10 percent import duty on imports of reinforcing bar to Turkey which was removed at the beginning of 2018 will be reintroduced as of January 1, 2019. The import duty on reinforcing bar in Turkey was first decreased to ten percent from 30 percent in July 2017, and then completely removed as of January 1, 2018.
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Turkey has officially cancelled the customs duty on imports of reinforcing bars effective from January 1st, 2018.
The Turkish authorities had reduced the customs duty on imports of reinforcing bar to 10 percent on July 28th last year, on the back of complaints by the domestic construction industry. The customs duty on rebar imports to Turkey used to be 30 percent before then.
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Algerian trade minister Mohamed Benmeradi has announced the abolition of the import license system in the country as of January 1, 2018, for all products, except for imports of vehicles. It was declared that the system “has shown its limits”, it was a bureaucratic system that “lacked transparency”, and sometimes it has caused supply problems, leading to price hikes in the Algerian market. The aim of the license system was... Read More

Qatar’s Ministry of Environment has announced guidelines regarding reinforcing bar imports to improve the quality of building and construction materials in the country.
Accordingly, Qatar has banned imports of reinforcing bars below grade 500, and made mandatory a labaratory test report to import the construction steels.
The Ministry announced to accept only those issued by the ISO 17025-certified laboratories with three month validity as... Read More